Imagin if you are playing with your friends, just playing around and you shot a ball and it was going right on target, the your friend who isn't the goalie does what Couto did, how would you feel, how would you rule?
the mere facts. he headed the ball away, had no deliberate hand contact and that if it wasn't for some sudden tornado changing the course of the ball, it wouldn't have gone in.
you can barely notice him touching the ball anyway so how could he considerably deflect it in the way you would love to see ?
Guys, I am really cool talking to you all bout Inter and Juve and Milan and such and I do love being here on Juventuz, I don't know why guys like that camelface guy called mondo whatever has issues with all of this
Anyways, this is the behaviou of someone who really has issues, I think INter come up in his dreams and scares him at night or so
Imagin if you are playing with your friends, just playing around and you shot a ball and it was going right on target, the your friend who isn't the goalie does what Couto did, how would you feel, how would you rule?
Imagin if you are playing with your friends, just playing around and you shot a ball and it was going right on target, the your friend who isn't the goalie does what Couto did, how would you feel, how would you rule?
No matter what you say everyone here will think it's not a penalty. No matter what we say you'll say it was a penalty.
It only shows how hard it was for the ref to tell if it was or it wasn't a handball.
The ref went for the "call it in favor of the bigger team" option and that's it.
And how would you have felt if Couto did this in the last round of serie A, in a match against Juve, in the situation where Juve and Inter fight for the scudetto and if Inter lose the scudetto with this penalty.
I'm 100000000% sure we would have had here a similar discussion just that we all would have been saying that it's a penalty while you would have moaned how it wasn't a penalty and the refs favor Juve "the cheaters".
I stay convinced that it wasn't a penalty, though.
I think it's important to realise here that we're not talking about one bad call. All in all, there have been quite a few awful calls that went Inter's way this season. And after Calciopoli this really hurts.
Anyways, I think I will call it a night to celebrate a bit with my pals here and have a crack at my cousin who is a Juventino, he is a bit pissed right now ever since the Samp match and I almost saw a smile on his face when we were losing, anyways, time to have a crack at him
I think it's important to realise here that we're not talking about one bad call. All in all, there have been quite a few awful calls that went Inter's way this season. And after Calciopoli this really hurts.
Imagin if you are playing with your friends, just playing around and you shot a ball and it was going right on target, the your friend who isn't the goalie does what Couto did, how would you feel, how would you rule?
Anyways, I think I will call it a night to celebrate a bit with my pals here and have a crack at my cousin who is a Juventino, he is a bit pissed right now ever since the Samp match and I almost saw a smile on his face when we were losing, anyways, time to have a crack at him
Calcio will never have credibility in the world unless it can raise its officiating standards to any league it feigns to be a peer, whether the EPL or Bundesliga.
I expected the standard of play to drop a little since calciopoli with the exodus of some talent, but I didn't expect the officiating to come off like some Mickey Mouse B league from Burundi. That last part has been the shocking outcome for Serie A for me this season.
I truly hope the Italian media start labelling this officiating farce in Serie A a "crisis" -- just as they do when Milan can't win at home. Because it is in a real crisis, and something really has to change to save the sport at this rate.
I think Alen was correct in saying that Italians will never become anything like the Germans in this day and age. Italians have a system where it's okay to allow representatives from the three major clubs sit down with the FIGC referee designator and discuss the schedule, so they are used to it. And as you know, it takes a lot for people to change. Perhaps something like WWII, as seen with the German people.
The best we can hope for is better officiating and less controversy, along with less corruption which seems to be a mainstay in the Serie A. But no matter what happens there will always be something wrong with Calcio, truthfully or not.
You know, I can understand why someone would want to be a Liverpool fan. I see the point in supporting Milan. Bayern have their good runs from time to time and it must be lovely to cheer for Arsenal.
But I don't understand why someone would be an Inter fan. That just doesn't make any sense. At any level.